Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ambitious video games company Sega Enterprises Ltd is not playing games : it says it should reach annual sales of $5,000m by 1997 at the latest : the company controls 55% of the European video-game market and its main competitor , Nintendo Co , has 45% , it said ; it also reckons it has 54% of the US market , although Nintendo is generally regarded as the market leader there ; in Japan , Sega has just 20% . |
| 2 | First , it must present technical data on safety in a way that will encourage public debate . |
| 3 | Stroud District Council says it ca n't allow the face to stay because it might tempt other people to paint their dishes . |
| 4 | Irene Daniels , who 's the programme 's researcher says ‘ if you have a clip that makes you and your family laugh , then it 's odds on it 'll make other people laugh too ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ And as it is the first case to come up in Scotland , it could help other people in the same circumstances . ’ |
| 6 | To make up for a late start , the government this year announced it would make available £125 million of grants to push industry into the robot age . |
| 7 | While the pervasiveness and uniformity of television news made it unlikely that it would influence different people in different ways , the press seemed likely to influence different readers in very different ways . |
| 8 | GL doubts that the position would be recoverable , or if it was , it would require scientific staff time as well as library staff . |
| 9 | It would challenge young people 's sense of responsibility , he hoped , and show these troubled teenagers that someone trusted and believed in them . |
| 10 | If Division B could not sell all it could make at £120 , it would reject other sales once the price had dropped to just less than £90 . |
| 11 | It will integrate electronic data sources such as Reuters ' , Selectfeed , Topic and Lotus One Source into a single information system . |
| 12 | Although fairly peaceful , it will eat small fish like your Neons and Glowlights . |
| 13 | Rechem welcomed the report , saying that " we hope it will reassure local people " . |
| 14 | ‘ It will mean disabled people doing all their shopping in these wheelchairs . |
| 15 | He would n't discuss product plans but the newsletter thinks it will market low-cost Mips workstations made by OEM suppliers . |
| 16 | The Microprocessor Report expects Bob Miller to be replaced at MIPS Technologies Inc : he apparently retains his seat on Silicon Graphics Inc 's board and his post as head of MIPS ' architecture committee but it seems he 's off with a new venture-backed workstation company called NetPower Systems Inc ; he would n't discuss product plans but the newsletter thinks that it will market low-cost MIPS R-series workstations made by OEM suppliers . |
| 17 | Additionally , it will furnish original data and information about the political interests and attitudes of women in Northern Ireland together with comparable data for men . |
| 18 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |